After an apprenticeship as a photographer in his native town with his father Alexander Lauterwasser (1928/1929), he attended the Höhere Berufsschule für Grafik und gestaltendes Gewerbe in Frankfurt from 1929 to 1931.
Special images are the photographs of the Swabian-Alemannic Fastnacht, the sailing at Lake Constance, the Überlingen sword dancers and the water birds.
[4] His photos of conductors, soloists and singers of classical music in the second half of the 20th century were also used for records, CD covers and illustrated books.
[5] He took photos of Pierre Boulez, Karl Böhm, David Oistrach, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Mstislav Rostropovich, Arthur Rubinstein and Leonard Bernstein, among others.
Recording venues were, among others, the Royal Opera of Versailles, the Wallfahrtskirche Birnau [de], the Salzburg Festival, the Wiener Singverein, the Berliner Philharmonie.
[8] The Culture Prize of the German Society for Photography [de] was awarded in 1999 to the still living members of the fotoform group and thus to Lauterwasser.